Alan Dershowitz: Jeffrey Epstein Decided ‘Best Way Out’ Was Suicide

Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said on Thursday that he believes his former client JeffreyEpstein died by suicide while in a Manhattan federal jail.

“But my own view is that he had made a decision that he would probably spend the rest of his life in prison,” Dershowitz said in an interview on the Law&Crime Network’s Brian Ross Investigates. “He couldn’t bear that reality, and he decided the best way out for him was to take his own life.”

Dershowitz was another person in that orbit, though he said Thursday that he hasn’t seen him in years. Virginia Roberts Giuffre says that she was one of Epstein’s victims, and that he made her have sex with Dershowitz. Dershowitz has repeatedly denied allegations, and insisted he never met her. He claimed she was lying. She is currently suing him for defamation. On Thursday, he repeated his attacks against Giuffre and her attorney David Boies.

“It’s a horrible thing to be accused like this,” he said, calling the allegations “vicious lies.”

As for the Epstein suicide, Dershowitz said he had “no doubts,” but an “open mind” about it — if there was evidence that showed something different.